Tagged with prison
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
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Jan 25 2017
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9781455570911
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
I'm a little afraid to proclaim how much I enjoyed this middle class white lady prison memoir for fear that my prison justice activist friends will tell me everything that's wrong with it. Regardless, Orange Is the New Black is a really good read. In Smith alumna Piper Kerman tells of her experiences doing time for a drug crime committed over ten years before her incarceration. It's not a woe is me (or woe is I) story. She fully cops to her crime and in fact prison does educate her on just how deleterious drug trafficking is when she understands her fellow inmates' addictions and plights. She isn't uncritical, though, of the "war on drugs."
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No one who worked in "corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf. p.293
reviewdate:
Aug 18 2010
isn:
978-0-385-52338-7
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NYS Ballot Proposal 2
I wonder why ballot proposals aren't a big deal in NY, the way they are is say, California? I got 165,000 results searching Google for <new york ballot proposals> and 1,500,000 for <california ballot measures>.
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Vikki Law, who also edits a zine by and for incarcerated women called Tenacious, has written a dense (664 endnotes!), but eminently readable chronicle of the struggles and travails of women in prison.
This book is ridiculously informative, but be warned it is also meant to incite. As Vikki inscribed in my copy, "Remember, prisons don't fall on their own--they need that extra push!"
reviewdate:
Oct 22 2009
isn:
978-1-60486-018-4